If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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time Travel and Tourism The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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more supervision.
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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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-- Anonymous When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Man and wife make one fool. Realism is a corruption of reality.
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-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
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was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Travel and Tourism
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
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enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Travel and Tourism Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Travel and Tourism
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Travel and Tourism
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel and Tourism I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
